This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Avadel. Miranda cannot remember a time in her life when she did not have insomnia. The 23 year old, who asked for her last name to be withheld, started struggling with sleep when she was a child. As she’s grown older, it’s only become…
An artist’s impression of Earth’s quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa, the first destination of the Tianwen-2 mission Addy Graham/University of Arizona Final preparations are under way for China to launch an uncrewed craft to visit both an asteroid and a comet, in the hope of learning more about the space rocks in our solar system. The Tianwen-2 mission…
Rachel Feltman: Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, right? Well, it turns out they might be way more complicated than that, and that could have implications for everything from diet and exercise to treating mental health conditions. For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Our guest today is Martin Picard, an associate professor…
Forest cleared for mining in the Brazilian Amazon Marcio Isensee e Sá/Getty Images The amount of tropical forest lost in 2024 was double that in 2023 and the highest in at least two decades as climate change made rainforests susceptible to uncontrollable fires. A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the…
Experts explain the science behind Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis, including how common it is and what treatments are available.
CLIMATEWIRE | A growing backlog of hundreds of unsigned NOAA contracts has slowed agency operations to a crawl — so much so that even Sen. Ted Cruz, a staunch ally of the Trump administration, has raised concerns about the gridlock. The bottleneck is due largely to one man: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose portfolio includes…
Alicella gigantea, the world’s largest amphipod, may be more common than we had thought Maroni et al./Royal Society Open Science A giant crustacean that resembles a large white shrimp may be far more common across the deep sea than thought, with potential habitat extending over much of the ocean floor. “We have called this species…
The new framework unveiled May 20 says new COVID-19 shots should go only to those ages 65 and up or with underlying medical conditions.
Is Your Tech Listening? Apple Settles Claim for Siri Eavesdropping Apple is paying $95 million over claims that Siri secretly recorded private chats and fed targeted ads By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Dean Visser Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sex, drug deals and doctor visits: according to allegations, Apple’s Siri eavesdropped on these and…
A deep-field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope containing thousands of distant galaxies NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Astronomers have confirmed that a distant galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the earliest ever seen, giving us a window on galaxy formation when the universe was in its infancy. Rohan…
